April Coffee Talk: Exposure Management vs. Cat Modelling

Are you a Cat Modeller or an Exposure Manager? Does it matter? What are the key skills for expanding knowledge and expertise beyond the cat models, to become a better cat risk manager and respond to less common and non-modelled events?  

Emma Watkins, Head of Exposure Management & Aggregation at Lloyd’s, will address these questions.

Emma and her team's responsibilities are to understand and control catastrophe risk, at the individual syndicate and market levels. This includes oversight of cyber, terrorism, liability, and natural catastrophe perils, as well as the development and implementation of Lloyd’s Catastrophe Model and Lloyd’s Catastrophe Risk Operational Framework. 

Before joining Lloyd’s, Emma held leadership positions in EM and Catastrophe Modelling at Aspen Re, Liberty Syndicates, WRB Underwriting, and The Channel Syndicate (SCOR), including setting up the Exposure Management function at WRB and gaining Lloyd’s approval for this area of the managing agency. She began her career 22 years ago in Treaty Reinsurance Underwriting at Wellington, after gaining a degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from the University of Oxford. 

Emma is a Chartered Insurer and Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute, holds the CCRA and CCRMP designations, and also sits on the boards of Oasis LMF and the ISCM.